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Liviu Mandras
Liviu Mandras

Reputation: 6627

How to update facebook profile info from code?

Does someone know the API for updating user profile information on facebook? I want for instance to change my location from my client application. Is that possible?

I am using Facebook C# SDK, but an example in any other language would be great.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1486

Answers (2)

Kris Babic
Kris Babic

Reputation: 6304

I do not believe they support updating a user's profile information from the exposed Facebook API. The Graph API documentation currently states that only the following elements are editable (editable as in, you can create them):

  • Wall Posts (feed)
  • Object Comments
  • Likes
  • Notes
  • links
  • events
  • event status
  • albums
  • album photos
  • checkins

As you can see, the User object is not one of objects Facebook exposes for edit purposes. It does support the ability to publish location checkins, however. While this does not meet your goal of modifying the location attribute of a user's profile, it does provide some basic abilities.

POST https://graph.facebook.com/<profile_id>/checkins?
          access_token=<access_token>
          &coordinates={...}
          &message=my+message
          &place=<page_id>
          &tags=<tag1>,<tag2>,...

See the checkin documentation for an example using curl. This example should be executable by any platform specific Facebook API (Java, C#, etc..).

Upvotes: 4

user670804
user670804

Reputation:

You can't update informations from the API. All you can do is reading / searching / posting / deleting / analysing data. You can find everything there.

Cheers

Upvotes: 1

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